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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Compare and merging the differences in text file Post 302572922 by vgersh99 on Friday 11th of November 2011 05:30:01 PM
Old 11-11-2011
I don't quite understand why you need to all these steps, but that's beyond the point - you probably know better.
You can streamline all of these like so, e.g.:
Code:

sdiff -W -w 168 -l file1 file2 | colrm 82 | tr -d '\015' > Tr_file1

The same to be done for the other file.

For the 'The only issue' part.... I don't quite follow what you're after. Can you provide a snippet of a file BEFORE and AFTER - just a small snippet to illustrate the dilemma.
 

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lzcmp

XZDIFF(1)							     XZ Utils								 XZDIFF(1)

NAME

       xzcmp, xzdiff, lzcmp, lzdiff - compare compressed files

SYNOPSIS

       xzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2]
       xzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2]
       lzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2]
       lzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2]

DESCRIPTION

       xzcmp  and  xdiff invoke cmp(1) or diff(1) on files compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), or bzip2(1).  All options specified are passed
       directly to cmp or diff.  If only one file is specified, then the files compared are file1 (which must have a suffix of	a  supported  com-
       pression  format)  and  file1 from which the compression format suffix has been stripped.  If two files are specified, then they are uncom-
       pressed if necessary and fed to cmp(1) or diff(1).  The exit status from cmp or diff is preserved.

       The names lzcmp and lzdiff are provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils.

SEE ALSO

       cmp(1), diff(1), xz(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), zdiff(1)

BUGS

       Messages from the cmp(1) or diff(1) programs refer to temporary filenames instead of those specified.

Tukaani 							    2009-07-05								 XZDIFF(1)
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